So here’s the question: Should I somehow finagle tickets to a Giants game and take my kid to a Giants game.
He’s six. He calls himself a “Giants fan” but doesn’t do anything about that such as watch them. It’s the last year of Giants Stadium.
I took him to Shea and Yankee so he wouldn’t yell at me when he’s 30.
Is Giants Stadium a must-see? There’s nothing really remarkable about it. There’s nothing to show him if we go….or is the idea of “I went with dad to the old Giants Stadium” going to mean something some day?
Whatcha think?
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I took my 3 1/2 year old to the Jets-Bills game a few weeks ago. Despite the cold and a miserable Jets loss, he loved going to the game. Then again, he just loves going to games in general. (We took him to his first sports event when he was 6 weeks old, and have made going to games a special event ever since.)
He doesn't really watch much football at home, since the season isn't nearly as immersive as baseball. (We'll have baseball on at home every evening, all summer long. Football is essentially only on weekends, when we tend to try to do other things.) That said, he was asking great questions about trying to understand the game, and he made it from 1pm (when we got off the train for tailgating) to 8pm, when we finally gave up on the game after the Jets had that miserable fake field goal attempt in overtime. (By the time we left everyone in our section was congratulating him for lasting so long, noting that they'd never seen a kid that young last that long at a game on that cold a day.)
Of course, YMMV…
Tough question. I don't think the stadium itself is much to see. It's more about the experience of going to a game, tailgating and having fun.
As your kid is 6, the question I see is are you a Giants fan? It will be a shared memory if you go, and if you wouldn't normally go to a game, I can't see going this year as a reason.
I don't know. I'm not a big football fan, so I've never been there. On the other hand, I can tell you that I don't have a lot of clear memories from when I was that young.
Yes, Shannon. It's worth the investment.
I went to my first Giant's game in November 1970 at the original Yankee Stadium with my late father (sat behind a pole on a freezing day against the Cowgirls). I still remember Pete Gogolak kicking the game-winning FG; I still remember exiting through the Yankees dugout—the only time I've ever walked on an MLB/NFL field.
Giants Stadium is not a history-filled stadium because two NFL teams have to share the same space. But it's an excellent example of great 1970s architecture that your son should see and remember…